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The Peacock streaming provider reached 24.5 million per thirty days lively accounts, of which fairly greater than one-third are subscribers, on the finish of 2021, Comcast stated in an profits name on Thursday.
“Inside those 24.5 [million] MAAs are over 9 million paid subscribers,” Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts stated on a decision to buyers, Selection reported. Telecommunications massive Comcast is the guardian corporate of NBCUniversal, the media conglomerate that owns Peacock.
Some subscribers get Peacock thrown in at no additional value with with any other subscription. “We now have any other 7 million extremely engaged package subscribers from Xfinity and different best vendors who use Peacock each unmarried month and recently obtain Peacock Top rate and no additional value,” Roberts stated, in keeping with Selection.
The streaming provider attracts on present and previous presentations from NBC like The Place of business, Parks and Game, and the again catalog and new episodes of Saturday Evening Reside. It additionally hosts presentations from different NBCUniversal channels, like Bravo’s Venture Runway. It has a slate of originals (comparable to The Amber Ruffin Display and We Are Woman Portions) and licenses others (like Yellowstone). The provider streams reside sports activities, like Sunday Evening Soccer, WWE, Premier League football and the approaching Olympics in Beijing. It is going to be one possibility for viewing the 2022 Tremendous Bowl.
Peacock gives unfastened and top class tiers of get entry to. With a unfastened subscription, you’ll view make a choice episodes, get curated highlights of main carrying occasions and watch channels arranged round a theme. Top rate get entry to prices $5 a month with advertisements or $10 a month with out.
Nonetheless, Peacock has numerous catching as much as do within the race for streaming subscribers. Netflix has 221 million paid subscribers, whilst Disney Plus hit 118 million paid subscribers on the finish of 2021.
